Justification:
This species is listed as Least Concern in view of its tolerance of habitat modification, wide distribution, presumed large population, and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.

This species occurs in the altiplano grasslands of southeast Peru and west Bolivia, as far south as Tarija Department in Bolivia (Anderson, 1993; Musser and Carleton, 2005), and Salta Province in Argentina. It has an elevational range of 3,200 to 4,300 m.